Publications

†corresponding author; *equal contribution; selected highlights are shown in blue.

Preprints

1. S.-D. Chen†, R. Qi, H.-L. Kim, Q. Feng, R. Xia, D. Abeysinghe, J. Xie, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, D.-H. Lee, and F. Wang†, “Terahertz electrodynamics in a zero-field Wigner crystal”, arXiv:2509.10624 (2025).

2. Q. Guo, K.-J. Xu, M. H. Berntsen, A. Grubišić-Čabo, M. Dendzik, T. Balasubramanian, C. Polley, S.-D. Chen, J. He, Y. He, C. R. Rotundu, Y. S. Lee, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lu, T. P. Devereaux, D.-H. Lee, Z.-X. Shen, and O. Tjernberg, “Contrasting electron-phonon interaction between electron-and hole-doped cuprates”, arXiv:2408.01685 (2024).

Peer-reviewed publications

1. T. Chistolini*, H.-L. Kim*, Q. Wang*, S.-D. Chen*, †, L. P. Cairns, R. P. Day, C. Sanborn, H. Kim, Z. Pedramrazi, R. Qi, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. G. Analytis, D. I. Santiago, I. Siddiqi, and F. Wang†, “Contactless cavity sensing of superfluid stiffness in atomically thin 4Hb-TaS2”, Physical Review Letters 137, 076002 (2026).

2. R. Qi, Q. Li, Z. Zhang, S. Chen, J. Xie, Y. Ou, Z. Cui, D. D. Dai, A. Y. Joe, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, L. Fu, and F. Wang, “Electrically controlled interlayer trion fluid in electron-hole bilayers”, Science 390, 299 (2025).

3. R. Qi, Q. Li, Z. Zhang, J. Nie, B. Zou, Z. Cui, H. Kim, C. Sanborn, S. Chen, J. Xie, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. F. Crommie, A. H. MacDonald, and F. Wang, “Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers”, Nature Materials 25, 35 (2025).

4. C. B. Uzundal, Q. Feng, W. Tang, C. Hu, C. Sanborn, Y. Yoon, S. Chen, J. Ruan, S. G. Louie, and F. Wang, “Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters”, Light: Science & Applications 14, 226 (2025).

5. Z. Xiang, H. Li, J. Xiao, M. H. Naik, Z. Ge, Z. He, S. Chen, J. Nie, S. Li, Y. Jiang, R. Sailus, R. Banerjee, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, S. Tongay, S. G. Louie, M. F. Crommie, and F. Wang, “Imaging quantum melting in a disordered 2D Wigner solid”, Science 388, 736 (2025).

6. S.-D. Chen, Q. Feng, W. Zhao, R. Qi, Z. Zhang, D. Abeysinghe, C. Uzundal, J. Xie, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and F. Wang, “Direct measurement of terahertz conductivity in a gated monolayer semiconductor”, Nano Letters 25, 7998 (2025).

7. Y.-F. Li, E. M. Been, S. Balguri, C.-J. Jia, M. B. Mahendru, Z.-C. Wang, Y. Cui, S.-D. Chen, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lu, B. Moritz, J. Zaanen, F. Tafti, T. P. Devereaux, and Z.-X. Shen, “Colossal magnetoresistance from spin-polarized polarons in an Ising system”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2409846121 (2024).

8. T. Chistolini, K. Lee, A. Banerjee, M. Alghadeer, C. Jünger, M. Altoé, C. Song, S. Chen, F. Wang, D. I. Santiago, and I. Siddiqi, “Performance of superconducting resonators suspended on SiN membranes”, Applied Physics Letters 125, 204001 (2024).

9. K.-J. Xu, J. He, S.-D. Chen, Y. He, S. N. Abadi, C. R. Rotundu, Y. S. Lee, D.-H. Lu, Q. Guo, O. Tjernberg, T. P. Devereaux, D.-H. Lee, M. Hashimoto, and Z.-X. Shen, “Anomalous normal-state gap in an electron-doped cuprate”, Science 385, 796 (2024).

10. Y. Yoon, Z. Lu, C. Uzundal, R. Qi, W. Zhao, S. Chen, Q. Feng, W. Kim, M. H. Naik, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. G. Louie, M. F. Crommie, and F. Wang, “Terahertz phonon engineering with van der Waals heterostructures”, Nature 631, 771 (2024).

11. J.-Y. Shan, N. Morrison, S.-D. Chen, F. Wang, and E. Y. Ma, “Johnson-noise-limited cancellation-free microwave impedance microscopy with monolithic silicon cantilever probes”, Nature Communications 15, 5043 (2024).

12. J. Xie, Z. Zhang, H. Zhang, V. Nagarajan, W. Zhao, H. Kim, C. Sanborn, R. Qi, S. Chen, S. Kahn, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Zettl, M. F. Crommie, J. Analytis, and F. Wang, “Low resistance contact to p-type monolayer WSe2”, Nano Letters 24, 5937 (2024).

13. Y.-F. Li*, S.-D. Chen*, M. García Díez, M. I. Iraola, H. Pfau, Y.-L. Zhu, Z.-Q. Mao, T. Chen, M. Yi, P.-C. Dai, J. A. Sobota, M. Hashimoto, M. G. Vergniory, D.-H. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen, “Orbital ingredients and persistent Dirac surface state for the topological band structure in FeTe0.55Se0.45”, Physical Review X 14, 021043 (2024).

14. K.-J. Xu, Q. Guo, M. Hashimoto, Z.-X. Li, S.-D. Chen, J. He, Y. He, C. Li, M. H. Berntsen, C. R. Rotundu, Y. S. Lee, T. P. Devereaux, A. Rydh, D.-H. Lu, D.-H. Lee, O. Tjernberg, and Z.-X. Shen, “Bogoliubov quasiparticle on the gossamer Fermi surface in electron-doped cuprates”, Nature Physics 19, 1834 (2023).

15. W. Zhao, S. Wang, S. Chen, Z. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Zettl, and F. Wang, “Observation of hydrodynamic plasmons and energy waves in graphene”, Nature 614, 688 (2023).

16. H. Lu, M. Hashimoto, S.-D. Chen, S. Ishida, D. Song, H. Eisaki, A. Nag, M. Garcia-Fernandez, R. Arpaia, G. Ghiringhelli, L. Braicovich, J. Zaanen, B. Moritz, K. Kummer, N. B. Brookes, K.-J. Zhou, Z.-X. Shen, T. P. Devereaux, and W.-S. Lee, “Identification of a characteristic doping for charge order phenomena in Bi-2212 cuprates via RIXS”, Physical Review B 106, 155109 (2022).

17. Y. Zhong, Z. Chen, S.-D. Chen, K.-J. Xu, M. Hashimoto, Y. He, S. Uchida, D. Lu, S.-K. Mo, and Z.-X. Shen, “Differentiated roles of Lifshitz transition on thermodynamics and superconductivity in La2-xSrxCuO4”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2204630119 (2022).

18. Z. Chen, M. Osada, D. Li, E. M. Been, S.-D. Chen, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, S.-K. Mo, K. Lee, B. Y. Wang, F. Rodolakis, J. L. McChesney, C. Jia, B. Moritz, T. P. Devereaux, H. Y. Hwang, and Z.-X. Shen, “Electronic structure of superconducting nickelates probed by resonant photoemission spectroscopy”, Matter 5, 1806 (2022).

19. S.-D. Chen*, M. Hashimoto*, Y. He, D. Song, J.-F. He, Y.-F. Li, S. Ishida, H. Eisaki, J. Zaanen, T. P. Devereaux, D.-H. Lee, D.-H. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen, “Unconventional spectral signature of Tc in a pure d-wave superconductor”, Nature 601, 562 (2022).

20. B. Q. Lv, A. Zong, D. Wu, A. V. Rozhkov, B. V. Fine, S.-D. Chen, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lu, M. Li, Y.-B. Huang, J. P. C. Ruff, D. A. Walko, Z. H. Chen, I. Hwang, Y. Su, X. Shen, X. Wang, F. Han, H. C. Po, Y. Wang, P. Jarillo-Herrero, X. Wang, H. Zhou, C.-J. Sun, H. Wen, Z.-X. Shen, N. L. Wang, and N. Gedik, “Unconventional hysteretic transition in a charge density wave”, Physical Review Letters 128, 036401 (2022).

21. Y. He*, S.-D. Chen*, Z.-X. Li*, D. Zhao, D. Song, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, T. Wu, X.-H. Chen, D.-H. Lu, C. Meingast, T. P. Devereaux, R. J. Birgeneau, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lee, and Z.-X. Shen, “Superconducting fluctuations in overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ”, Physical Review X 11, 031068 (2021).

22. H. Pfau, S. D. Chen, M. Hashimoto, N. Gauthier, C. R. Rotundu, J. C. Palmstrom, I. R. Fisher, S.-K. Mo, Z.-X. Shen, and D. Lu, “Anisotropic quasiparticle coherence in nematic BaFe2As2 studied with strain-dependent ARPES”, Physical Review B 103, 165136 (2021).

23. K.-J. Xu, S.-D. Chen, Y. He, J. He, S. Tang, C. Jia, E. Yue Ma, S.-K. Mo, D. Lu, M. Hashimoto, T. P. Devereaux, and Z.-X. Shen, “Metallic surface states in a correlated d-electron topological Kondo insulator candidate FeSb2”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 15409 (2020).

24. S.-D. Chen*, M. Hashimoto*, Y. He, D. Song, K.-J. Xu, J.-F. He, T. P. Devereaux, H. Eisaki, D.-H. Lu, J. Zaanen, and Z.-X. Shen, “Incoherent strange metal sharply bounded by a critical doping in Bi2212”, Science 366, 1099 (2019).

25. H. Pfau, S. D. Chen, M. Yi, M. Hashimoto, C. R. Rotundu, J. C. Palmstrom, T. Chen, P.-C. Dai, J. Straquadine, A. Hristov, R. J. Birgeneau, I. R. Fisher, D. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen, “Momentum dependence of the nematic order parameter in iron-based superconductors”, Physical Review Letters 123, 066402 (2019).

26. J. He, C. R. Rotundu, M. S. Scheurer, Y. He, M. Hashimoto, K.-J. Xu, Y. Wang, E. W. Huang, T. Jia, S. Chen, B. Moritz, D. Lu, Y. S. Lee, T. P. Devereaux, and Z. Shen, “Fermi surface reconstruction in electron-doped cuprates without antiferromagnetic long-range order”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 3449 (2019).

27. H. Pfau, C. R. Rotundu, J. C. Palmstrom, S. D. Chen, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, A. F. Kemper, I. R. Fisher, and Z.-X. Shen, “Detailed band structure of twinned and detwinned BaFe2As2 studied with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy”, Physical Review B 99, 035118 (2019).

28. Y. He, M. Hashimoto, D. Song, S.-D. Chen, J. He, I. M. Vishik, B. Moritz, D.-H. Lee, N. Nagaosa, J. Zaanen, T. P. Devereaux, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, D. H. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen, “Rapid change of superconductivity and electron-phonon coupling through critical doping in Bi-2212”, Science 362, 62 (2018).

29. S.-D. Chen, Y. He, A. Zong, Y. Zhang, M. Hashimoto, B.-B. Zhang, S.-H. Yao, Y.-B. Chen, J. Zhou, Y.-F. Chen, S.-K. Mo, Z. Hussain, D. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen, “Large thermopower from dressed quasiparticles in the layered cobaltates and rhodates”, Physical Review B 96, 081109 (2017).

30. L. Chaix, G. Ghiringhelli, Y. Y. Peng, M. Hashimoto, B. Moritz, K. Kummer, N. B. Brookes, Y. He, S. Chen, S. Ishida, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, M. Salluzzo, L. Braicovich, Z.-X. Shen, T. P. Devereaux, and W.-S. Lee, “Dispersive charge density wave excitations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ”, Nature Physics 13, 952 (2017).

31. J. He, C. Zhang, N. J. Ghimire, T. Liang, C. Jia, J. Jiang, S. Tang, S. Chen, Y. He, S.-K. Mo, C. C. Hwang, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, B. Moritz, T. P. Devereaux, Y. L. Chen, J. F. Mitchell, and Z.-X. Shen, “Distinct electronic structure for the extreme magnetoresistance in YSb”, Physical Review Letters 117, 267201 (2016).

32. X. H. Niu, S. D. Chen, J. Jiang, Z. R. Ye, T. L. Yu, D. F. Xu, M. Xu, Y. Feng, Y. J. Yan, B. P. Xie, J. Zhao, D. C. Gu, L. L. Sun, Q. Mao, H. Wang, M. Fang, C. J. Zhang, J. P. Hu, Z. Sun, and D. L. Feng, “A unifying phase diagram with correlation-driven superconductor-to-insulator transition for the 122 series of iron chalcogenides”, Physical Review B 93, 054516 (2016).

33. Y. He, I. M. Vishik, M. Yi, S. Yang, Z. Liu, J. J. Lee, S. Chen, S. N. Rebec, D. Leuenberger, A. Zong, C. M. Jefferson, R. G. Moore, P. S. Kirchmann, A. J. Merriam, and Z.-X. Shen, “Invited Article: High resolution angle resolved photoemission with tabletop 11 eV laser”, Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 011301 (2016).

34. M. Xu, L.-M. Wang, R. Peng, Q.-Q. Ge, F. Chen, Z.-R. Ye, Y. Zhang, S.-D. Chen, M. Xia, R.-H. Liu, M. Shi, X.-H. Chen, W.-G. Yin, W. Ku, B.-P. Xie, and D.-L. Feng, “Electronic structure reconstruction across the antiferromagnetic transition in TaFe1.23Te3 spin ladder”, Chinese Physics Letters 32, 027401 (2015).

35. M. Xia, J. Jiang, Z. R. Ye, Y. H. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. D. Chen, X. H. Niu, D. F. Xu, F. Chen, X. H. Chen, B. P. Xie, T. Zhang, and D. L. Feng, “Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study on the surface states of the correlated topological insulator YbB6”, Scientific Reports 4, 5999 (2014).

36. X. P. Shen, S. D. Chen, Q. Q. Ge, Z. R. Ye, F. Chen, H. C. Xu, S. Y. Tan, X. H. Niu, Q. Fan, B. P. Xie, and D. L. Feng, “Electronic structure of Ca10(Pt4As8)(Fe2-xPtxAs2)5 with metallic Pt4As8 layers: an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study”, Physical Review B 88, 115124 (2013).

Theses

1. S. Chen, “High precision photoemission study of overdoped Bi2212 superconductors”, PhD Thesis, Stanford University (2021).

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